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Do You Feel Out of Control Around Food? Here’s Why!

Do you ever feel like you have a love/hate relationship with food? You love the taste of it and sometimes find it enjoyable. It’s there for you when you need it and want it. And, it can make you feel really good physically! On the flip side, you hate it! It’s something you can’t get […]

Food as a Reflection of Our Lives: Our Daily Magic

If you consider yourself to be a perfectionist or overachiever, this episode is for you!

A Tool to Feel Empowered: Memories with a Beat

Learn about one of the tools I use with my clients as they’re exploring their relationship with food, why it works, how to use it, and how it helped me as I was going through my journey to heal my relationship with food.

Beauty & Its Enemies – Food: The Half Naked Truth Podcast

Learn about the connection between food and beauty and the idea that a good relationship with food is reflective of a good relationship with ourselves. You’ll also discover how our relationship to food has nothing to do with the food itself and everything to do with our mentality outside of the realm of food.

How Fear Becomes Strength and Leads to Finding Your Why

This is a guest blog post from Boudoir & Family Photographer, Shannon Griffin. I wanted to share a piece from Shannon because the work she does with her clients is so much deeper than just a boudoir session. She really gets to know her clients and helps them feel seen. I hope you enjoy this […]

How do I Fuel My Game in a Healthy Way?: The Frontcourt Female Podcast

This two part interview covers diet culture, why we self-sabotage, emotional eating, intuitive eating, feeling out of control/out of choice, why we think about food so much and a whole lot more.

What’s Underneath “I need to diet”: Insatiable Podcast

In this interview I share my journey of losing 60 pounds but still feeling trapped in the fear of gaining the weight back, how adding in a food group was life-changing, and what I discovered was really happening underneath “feeling fat.”

When Mindless Eating isn’t About Lack of Willpower

You wrap up work for the day and start to shift into thinking about what you’re going to make for dinner. If you have kids, you also have to shift from being in the work mindset to the caretaker mindset. You shut your laptop and head straight to the pantry. You’re not really hungry but […]

The Secret Stressors of Cooking

Over the last few months, the number of meals most of us have to prepare each day and week has increased significantly. I don’t know about you, but for me I’ve been running my dishwasher more than ever! Are you a person that loves or hates cooking (or somewhere in between)? For some, cooking and […]

Getting to the Bottom of Nighttime Eating

How often do you walk by a mirror and cringe? Or, maybe you try to avoid catching glimpses of yourself in mirrors altogether because they make you feel bad. I hear this scenario from many of my clients. One client in particular was feeling fat and wasn’t comfortable in her body. When we first started […]

What’s Underneath the Fear of Losing Weight

Have you ever had a goal you really wanted to achieve but something held you back from committing and taking action? This was a realization a client recently had. She really wanted to lose weight, knew the steps it would take to make it happen and was finally ready. However, after months of sabotaging her […]

Tips for Loving Your Current Body

This is a guest post from Liz Hansen, owner of the Chicago Boudoir Photography Studio If you’re like many women, you may feel some shame and dissatisfaction with your body. But what if you could start loving your body right NOW, just as it is? I want you to picture what that would be like. […]

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